Paris (16 June, 1944)
Jacques Lacan, Cecil Eluard, Pierre Reverdy, Louise Leiris, Zanie Aubier, Picasso, Valentine Hugo, Simon de Beauvoir, Brassai, Sarte, Albert Camus, Michel Leiris, Jean Aubier, and top photo only, Picasso's Afghan dog called 'Kazbeck'
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Even in this group of "superior minds", it's impossible to get everyone to be still and look at the camera. ;-)
Lacan... what did you expect? :)
What surprised me was that Lacan and Dali were friends in 1933... when Dali was doing some of his best work.
Why did it surprise you? Dali was friends with Freud, wasn't he?
errr...maybe he was just a follower of Freud?
Well THAT's just it... Dali always seemed to me very Freudian, almost "literally" Freudian. And Lacan, although he advocated a "return" to Freud, was actually much more "linguistically" oriented.
In other words, I see very little "Lacan" in Dali. No "mirror stage", no "discourse analyses". Granted, Lacan hadn't developed most of these theories yet in 33-36, but you would think that they would have started to appear in Dali's work in the later years. Of course, I suppose I've neglected much of this work... but now I need to keep an eye out for any Lacanian influences in Dali.
AN interesting paper on Dali and Lacan.
I suppose some things just resonate more and "stick".
In other news...school started back today, so I'll be reading 100+ pages of public school legal paranoia tonight. :p
Yech!
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